(04-27) 13:48 PDT SAN FRANCISCO - Investigators are asking for the public'shelp in identifying a woman who was found dead under suspiciouscircumstances last week in a San Francisco hotel.

The case of Jane Doe No. 9 -- described as a 25-year-old white woman

-- was to be turned over to the homicide detail for follow-up investigationtoday. She was found last Friday at 7:15 a.m. lying in the eighth-floorhallway of the Shih Yu-Lang Central YMCA Hotel at 220 Golden Gate Ave. inthe Tenderloin neighborhood.

She was 5-foot-8, 145 pounds, with green eyes and short red hair. She wasdressed in a black long-sleeve shirt, blue jeans and black Converse All-Starsneakers.

The woman had multiple tattoos, including one of a butterfly on her rightgroin, large angel wings on her back, as well as the words "Love Will TearUs Apart'' on her chest. Scarring on her left forearm spelled out "Love.''

Alan Pringle, chief investigator for the medical examiner's office, said thebody was found by a man who was staying at the hotel who saw her slumpedagainst the wall near the communal bathroom on the eighth floor.

She was not a guest, he said. "The manager didn't know her -- she could havebeen visiting somebody and whatever happened, happened,'' Pringle said.

Anyone with information about her identity is asked to call the medicalexaminer's office at (415) 553-1694.